Jennifer Worth Quotes

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• I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of…
• Health is the greatest of God's gifts, but we take it for granted; yet it hangs on a thread as fine as a spider's web…
• I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.
• Tread softly as you draw near to the bedside of a dying man, for the space around him is holy ground. Speak in hushed tones,…
• There is a greater gift than the trust of others. That is to trust in oneself. Some might call it confidence, others name it faith.…
• Quite honestly, a baby covered in blood, still slightly blue, eyes screwed up, in the first few minutes after birth, is not an object of…
• Love doesn't adhere to time and boundaries does it? It just is.
• The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.
• That's the trouble, I can't forget him. He was everything to me, except mine.
• Their devotion showed me there were no versions of love there was only... Love. That it had no equal and that it was worth searching…
• I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no…
• Was it love of people?' I asked her. 'Of course no,' she snapped sharply. 'How can you love ignorant, brutish people whom you don't even…
• Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you…
• Faith is a private matter, usually held deep within a person, quiet, impossible to recognise or understand, if you have no faith yourself
• Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or…
• Bah! Suffragettes. I've no time for suffragettes. They made the biggest mistake in history. They went for equality. They should have gone for power!
• Sister Monica Joan murmured, as though to herself, but loud enough to be heard by all, "How perfectly charming. Old enough to know it all,…

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